‘In response to the backlash from the archdiocese, the First Liberty Institute and the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, Walter Reed told Catholic News Agency that it was "reviewing the contract and unable to provide specifics.’
‘A number of accommodation processes were fragmented and difficult for service members and approving officials to navigate without a standardized and transparent system of record’
‘This policy is not just illegal, it shamefully politicizes the military, circumvents the authority of Congress, and exceeds the authority of the Department of Defense’
‘The good news is that this country was founded on religious freedom, and so the nation’s laws, Constitution, history and heritage supports religious freedom. And the people who are trying to change that are the ones who are having to fight uphill’
‘The Navy should be commended for ruling in accord with its own understanding and expectation that chaplains provide counsel according to the tenets of their faith’
‘The Navy expects chaplains to provide counsel according to the tenets of their faith. No disciplinary action, then, can cite his religious views or his verbalization of them as a cause for the action’